~ IDEA id+ | NOTION VISION VISTA | and
^u OPINION BELIEF
SCHEME PERCEPTION IMPRESSION
or VISION A MENTAL REALITY or
IDEA IDEOLOGY see> IDIOT
note IDEA and SELF ARE INTERTWINED
med> A FULLY FUNCTIONING MATURE HUMAN BEING
GENERATES IDIOSYNCRATIC IDEAS
he who lacks IDEAS is an IDIOT
consider VISION vs VISTA see> REAL
gr IDEA = APPEARANCE from
IDEIN TO SEE leads to WISE
ukr IDEA IDEA WIT
IDE GOES VISIT
eng IDEAL VISION VIEW
note " I SEE " and REALITY are NOT IDENTICAL
ply> | ONLY GOD HAS PERFECT VISION but
VISIONARIES may TRANSCEND others |
hx> PLATO PROPOSED A FUNDAMENTAL AND RELIGIOUS VIEW
suggesting that an " IDEA " is an " ARCHETYPE "
TO EMPHASIZE THAT IDEAS ARE NOT DERIVED FROM REALITY
AND THAT REALITY IS THE FULFILLMENT OF A DIVINE IDEA
note how in such a perspective IDEA IS PERFECT but
its material manifestation is PARTIAL and IMPERFECT
{is GOD or is the UNIVERSE IMPERFECT?}
for example THE IDEA "CAT" MAY BE PERFECT BUT NO
SPECIFIC "REAL" CAT CAN EMBODY THE SCOPE OF ALL CATS
note how IDEA in RELIGION may be represented as
GOD or LOGOS and considered to be the source of
THE GENESIS OF UNIVERSE PERCEPTIBLE OR NOT
note how NO TWO OBJECTS CAN REPRESENT AN
IDENTICAL IDEA BECAUSE NO TWO OBJECTS CAN
OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE AT THE SAME TIME
note how IDEOLOGY PROPOSES TRUTHS THAT ARE BEYOND
PROOF BY SCIENCE
HUMANS NURTURE IDEAS AND GENERATE IDEOLOGIES
WHICH INEVITABLY ARE IMPERFECT
RELATIVE TRUTH IS UNSETTLING WHICH MAY CALL FOR
FAITH FORMALIZED AS IDEOLOGY DOGMA PARTY or
RELIGION all can be used as an escape to
DENY UNDESIRED REALITY or SCIENCE
note "HISTORIC REVISIONISM" etc see> HISTORY
a euphemism for
ALTERING HISTORY TO FIT IDEOLOGICAL IDEAS
note IDEALISM ASPIRES TO
AN IMPOSSIBLE " PERFECT "
in contrast to SCIENCE WHICH ONLY OFFERS
PARTIAL DISCOVERIES or
LESSER LEVELS OF CERTAINTY AND
NEVER CAN ELIMINATE POCKETS OF UNCERTAINTY
note SINCE SCIENCE CAN NOT OFFER AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH
THE CONFLICT BETWEEN RELIGION DOGMA or
DOGMATIC POLITICS AND SCIENCE IS INEVITABLE BECAUSE
EVEN A MINUSCULE CHALLENGE TO A DOGMA sug> USSR
MAY COLLAPSE AN ENTIRE IDEOLOGY
notably THOSE WHO MAY UNDERMINE
A FAITH IN A DOGMA ARE UNWELCOMED
REGARDLESS OF VALID SCIENTIFIC ARGUMENTS
INDIVIDUALS WHO CHALLENGE DOGMATIC "IDEAS"
ARE MOST OFTEN BRANDED AS "ENEMIES"
or in DOGMATIC TERMS "DEMONIZED"
note "CHURCH" or the "PARTY"
if in power or if having the
STATUS of a "STATE" will often
sug> PURGE LIQUIDATE GULAG OPPONENTS
sc> note how GENETICS and SOCIOLOGY were seen as
a THREAT TO THE SOVIET UNION because the
factual tenets were inconsistent with
BOLSHEVIK DOGMAS HOLDING THAT COMMUNISM CAN
REMEDY SOCIAL ILLS REGARDLESS OF NATURE or GENES
note that contrariwise TO DOGMATISM
SCIENCE MUST ACCEPT UNCERTAINTY
SCIENCE CAN REJECT THE FALSE BUT IT CAN NOT REACH
AN ABSOLUTE TRUTH
RELIGIONS ARE THEOCENTRIC sug> DOGMA
SCIENCE IS HOMOCENTRIC sug> HUMANISM
however under COMMUNISM HOMOCENTRIC SCIENCE WAS
REPLACED BY A HOMOCENTRIC RELIGION see> MARX
see> AIDOS EIDOS SCIENCE MYTHOLOGY RELIGION
hx> SINCE THE RENAISSANCE HOMOCENTRIC VISTAS
LED TO THE STUDY OF IDEAS AND IDEALS AS
MEASURES OF HUMANITY AND LED TO IDEOLOGIES BASED ON
FREEDOM DIGNITY EQUALITY FRATERNITY LIBERTY etc
SCIENCE INTRODUCED THE TESTING OF sug> ANALYSIS
" IDEAL or IDEALIZED IDEAS " sug> ANATHEMA
VIA RIGOROUS FACTUAL OBSERVATIONS sug> EXPERIMENT
TO SYNTHESIZE APPROXIMATIONS sug> RELATIVITY
ONCE SUFFICIENT CERTAINTY EMERGED sug> PROOF
A SCIENTIFIC THEORY BASED ON FACTS COULD EMERGE
THUS AN IDEA COULD BE INCORPORATED FROM PHILOSOPHY
INTO THE BODY OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE as if
SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTS IDEAS REALIZED
WITH REASONABLE CERTAINTY or perhaps
A MYTH MADE VISIBLE AND COMPREHENSIBLE
as if THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IS TO FULFILL THEORIES
THE FORMER REPRESENTS TECHNOLOGY AND THE LATER CULTURE
A DISPROPORTION IN EITHER DIRECTION
FUELS RELIGION AND POLITICS AND MAY BE
AN OMEN OF SOCIAL STRESS AND DECAY sug> USSR
note the "IDEOLOGY" OF "SCIENTIFIC" MATERIALISM
note how SOME IDEAS ARE A WORD or sug> BAD
A WORD AGGLOMERATES DIVERSE IDEAS sug> ETHICS
some thinkers consider that GREAT IDEAS ARE
INTERACTIVE AND INTERDEPENDENT sug> CULT CULTURE
lit+ Mortimer J ADLER [#] in "Philosopher at Large"
MacMillan Publishing Co New York 1972
pointed out that RELATIVELY FEW "GREAT IDEAS" HAVE
EMERGED IN 3000 YEARS ADLER LED A SCHOLARLY ATTEMPT
TO PRESENT WESTERN VIEWS BY LINKING THOUSANDS OF
TOPICS INTO 102 GREAT IDEAS [87] USING AS A FACTUAL
BASIS PASSAGES CONTAINED IN 443 MASTERPIECES BY 74
CLASSIC AUTHORS from HOMER [#] to FREUD [#]
Adler lists GREAT IDEAS starting with ANGEL ANIMAL
ARISTOCRACY ART and ending with WAR WEALTH WILL
WISDOM WORLD
also consider CONSCIENCE LIFE JUSTICE MYTH
RELIGION SOUL IDOL IDOLATER IDYL
~ IDEAL an archetype of
id+ | THEORETICAL PERFECTION |
id+ | MODEL | thus
UNREAL IMAGINARY as in
sp VISION = VISION sug> VISIBLE sug> DOGMA
VISTA SIGHT VIEW OUTLOOK sug> WISDOM
lit+ "THE FIRST THING A MAN WILL DO sug> CREED
FOR HIS IDEALS IS TO LIE"
attr to Joseph SCHUMPERER [#]
~ IDEALISM implies A DESIRE TO SEEK PERFECTION CLASSIC
as in EXEMPLARY IMPECCABLE
see> CLASSIC sug> CALSO
also may imply FASTIDIOUS or
sp FASTIDIAR = IRRITATE
sp IDEALISTA = IDEALIST sug> FUSS
LISTA LIST as in AGENDA SCHEDULE
ALISTAR TO MAKE READY
LISTO ONE WHO IS SMART or SHREWD
eng ENLIST COMMIT ENGAGE REGISTER
ukr LYST MISSIVE LETTER
hx> MANY MODERN SOCIAL or POLITICAL IDEALISMS
HAVE ROOTS IN MODIFIED or VULGARIZED NOTIONS
EXPRESSED IN GERMAN ROMANTIC PHILOSOPHY WHERE
THE NATURE OF THE FREEDOM OF MAN IN RELATION TO THE
NATURE OF GOD IS EXPLORED AND WHICH LED TO
PROPOSITIONS THAT IN ESSENCE "MAN IS GOD" as per
KANT HEGEL ENGELS see> MARX
such ideas were further VULGARIZED AND POLITICIZED
not only by extremists like LENIN HITLER MAO ZEDONG
but also by many "DEMOCRATIC" MODERATE LEADERS
EXPLOITING POPULIST SLOGANS sug> PROLIFIC PROLETARIAT
note how "MAN IS GOD" IS FOUND IN CURRENT NOTIONS OF
JUSTICE EQUALITARIAN WELFARE and the scope under
"HUMAN RIGHTS" sug> PROGRESS PROLIFIC
lit+ K MARX [#] is instructive in this respect
" I WENT ON FROM IDEALISM ...
TO SEARCH FOR THE IDEA OF REALITY ITSELF ...
IF PREVIOUSLY GODS DWELT ABOVE THE EARTH
NOW THEY WERE THE CENTER OF IT" [92]
"THE CRITICISM OF RELIGION ENDS WITH THE PRECEPT
THAT THE SUPREME BEING FOR MAN IS MAN ... "
sug> for more search for entries MARX [#]
note ORTEGA y GASSET [#] in "REBELLION OF THE MASSES"
points out HOW IDEALISM UNDER POPULAR or
PROLETARIAT CLAMOR CAN DETERIORATE as found in
DEMANDS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS or JUSTICE sug> JUSTIFY
or SOCIAL BENEFITS WITHOUT A sug> WELFARE
COMMENSURATE COMMITMENT sug> CULTURE
TO THE VALUES OF THE SOCIETY THAT sug> ETHICS
IS TO SUSTAIN THEM sug> ADVOCATE
note A TREND TO REPLACE CULTURE sug> FAITH
WITH POPULIST IDOLS sug> ICON
eg MAO ZETUNG CHE GUEVARA EVITA sug> SAINT
or A PRONENESS TO DEIFY sug> LIABILITY
ACTORS SPORTSMEN or HOODLUMS sug> HOOLIGAN
med> note PSEUDO MEDICAL EUPHEMISMS sug> EUPHONIA
in a trend to replace sug> REVOLTING
SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE WITH sug> CONSCIENCE
LAY HEALERS HOLISTIC REMEDIES or sug> MAGIC
TRADITIONAL or FAITH HEALING sug> VOODOO
"TRADITIONAL" THERAPIES HAVE BEEN LEGITIMIZED AS
"MEDICAL" SERVICES BECAUSE OF POPULAR DEMANDS
WITHOUT EVIDENCE THAT SUCH ARE EFFICACIOUS or SAFE
in effect the implications are that
SCIENTIFIC THERAPIES MUST BE REGULATED BY LAW
WHILE "FAITH" or CREED HEALING IS
TO REMAIN ABOVE THE LAW
one factor in such trends is COMMERCIAL GREED
as manifest by an explosive growth of "HEALTH" stores
a phenomenon PROMOTED or PROPAGATED by the GENERATION
of TRANSIENT IDEAS FADS or VOGUES by sectors of the
"POPULAR MEDIA INDUSTRY" sug> PROPAGANDA
~ IDEOGRAM PHONETIC SYSTEM to denote IDENTICAL SOUNDS
~ IDEOLOGIST COMPILER OF IDEAS FOR AN IDEOLOGY
~ IDEOLOGY id+ | SET OF IDEAS |
implies an effort for CONSISTENCY
lit+ " PRISON TRANSFORMED ME
IT TRANSFORMED ME FROM AN
IDEOLOGIST INTO A HUMANIST "
attr to M DJILAS [#] see> COMMUNIST
~ IDEONOMY see> WORD
neologism or new label or word to denote
SEARCH OF KNOWLEDGE in a see> "WORD"
in this regard much has been written
lit+ Mortimer ADLER [#] wrote books and produced
a SYNTOPICON [87] presenting ESSAYS DEFINING
CARDINAL IDEAS BASED ON CLASSIC LITERARY WORKS
THE READER IS OFFERED ORIGINAL SOURCES IN FULL
THE CONCEPT OF IDEONOMY WAS APPARENTLY COINED BY
Patrick GUNCKEL [#] who proposes that an IDEONOMIST
IS A SCHOLAR SEEKING KNOWLEDGE IN HUMAN LANGUAGE
note AS NEW WORDS ALTER THEIR MEANING
OLDER MEANINGS REMAIN SUBMERGED
NEW WORDS OR MEANINGS ALSO ALTER THOSE OF OTHER WORDS
SUCH EVOLUTION IS QUALITATIVELY AND QUANTITATIVELY
DIFFERENT IN DIVERSE LANGUAGES sug> POLYGLOT
ply> | WORDS and GENES are ideas sug> DIALECT
MUTATION RATES REFLECT sug> PARLANCE
GENETIC STABILITY and sug> SEMANTICS
ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES | sug> ETIOLOGY
~ IDES id+ | ADVERSITY |
THE UNLUCKY 13th
RELATED TO THE MURDER OF JULIUS CESAR or CAESAR
hx> IN ANCIENT ROMAN CALENDAR
IDES WAS THE 13th DAY OF EVERY MONTH
BUT WITH SEVERAL EXCEPTIONS CAESAR WAS MURDERED MARCH 15th